John Cleese Quotes
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
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I saw the dead without really seeing them.
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There's always gonna be setbacks; there's always gonna be knockdowns. There's always gonna be people telling you, 'Hey, you suck!'
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
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I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
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Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
